Evangelism & Missions
Cross-Cultural Missions After the Colonial Era: Humility, Partnership, and the Gospel
Christian missions have carried the gospel across languages and continents, translated Scripture, planted churches, founded schools and hospitals, and formed relationships that changed both senders and receivers. They have also been entangled at times with…
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Digital Evangelism in a Distracted Age: Presence, Truth, and Conversation Online
A phone can carry a sermon across the world, connect a lonely believer to a church service, put a Bible in thousands of languages, and open a spiritual conversation between people who would never meet otherwise. The same phone can turn every disagreement…
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Evangelism Without the Sales Pitch: How to Talk About Jesus with Honesty and Respect
Plenty of Americans have heard a version of evangelism that felt more like a pitch than a conversation. The speaker had a script, the listener had objections to be overcome, and the encounter seemed designed to reach a predetermined closing question. That…
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Your Everyday Mission Field: Faith at Work, on Campus, and in the Neighborhood
Many Christians hear the word mission and imagine a passport, a stage, or a vocational ministry job. The New Testament certainly includes people sent across long distances, but it also assumes that believers represent Christ in ordinary places where they…
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The Great Commission Is a Call to Make Disciples, Not Just Decisions
In American church life, the Great Commission can shrink into a slogan about getting people to say yes to Jesus. Conversion matters deeply, but Matthew 28:16–20 gives the church a larger horizon. The scene begins with the risen Jesus claiming authority and…
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Why Missions Form Churches, Not Just Converts
The New Testament rarely imagines conversion as a private religious upgrade. People believe the gospel and then appear in communities: baptized, taught, corrected, fed, reconciled, equipped, and sent. This is why Christian missions across the centuries…
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Paul on Mission: What Acts Teaches About Strategy, Setbacks, and the Holy Spirit
The missionary Paul is sometimes remembered as if he carried a perfect strategy map from city to city: enter a population center, preach, plant a church, move on. Acts is more interesting than that. Paul plans, argues, travels, works, adapts, suffers,…
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Short-Term Missions That Actually Help: A Better Way to Go
Short-term mission trips are easy to praise and easy to mock. At their best, they deepen long-term partnerships, expose Christians to the global church, provide needed skills, support local ministry, and form people who keep serving after they return home.…
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How to Support Missions Without Leaving Home: Prayer, Giving, Hospitality, and Partnership
Most Christians will never become long-term cross-cultural missionaries. That does not place them outside the missionary life of the church. The New Testament describes believers who pray, give, host, send, encourage, open homes, share risk, and maintain…
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Words and Works Belong Together: Evangelism, Mercy, and the Whole Mission of the Church
Churches sometimes inherit a false choice about mission. One camp fears that social concern will replace the gospel with activism. Another fears that verbal evangelism without attention to suffering turns the gospel into religious speech detached from real…
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